traditional music

i also love mbalax from Senegal, it's not purely traditional but it has strong hard roots!

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  On 2/8/2013 at 4:30 AM, joshuatx said:

Just found this - huge collection here at the British Library, all streaming. Literally thousands of recordings. The wax cylinder collection of 1890-1910 alone has 244 recordings.

Thanks!

having an Irish mother meant The Chieftains, The Dubliners &particularly Luke Kelly were all venerated growing up

various versions of The Raggle Taggle Gypsy, On Raglan Road, The Old Triangle, The Fields of Athenry,,,, old ballads & republican rebel songs mostly

if enough whiskey had gone down The Raggle Taggle Gypsy was always cranked out, especially 1 slow mournful Christy Moore take on that classic that i'd have to bell me Ma to find out which release its off

Kink Gong has put out some incredible field recordings from Asia, whole villages caught in communal song and you can hear fires crackling, people talking & dogs howling in the backgrounds. Scloud is here:

https://soundcloud.com/kinkgong

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Mali - 1977
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Bali.

Sioux.

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^The Bali track is lovely, but the arrangement strikes me as more of a modern version of a traditional tune. I have literally no facts to base that on, just seems a touch too clean/contemporary. Again, it's lovely so who cares.

Also this: https://youtu.be/vRGzZnX99i0

never listened to the entire recording, but I've had an mp3 of the first 'track' (~first 5 mins) that I've loved for years, it's absolutely haunting. Need to listen to more of it.

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oh and this one

 

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full playlist:

Sister album.

  On 3/27/2016 at 5:17 AM, Ayya Khema said:

 

  On 3/26/2016 at 5:56 PM, Nidhogg said:

Toumani is great. im surprised anyone at watmm knows him

 

This song is very emotional

 

Im in love with Toumani diabate and ive been listening a lot lately.

this is going beyond traditional music, hes damn good instrumentalist and soloist.

My favorite album from him is the mande variations.

  On 8/26/2016 at 8:43 PM, ManjuShri said:

holy shit when the drums join in! noice!

croatian traditional techno (...funny lyrics too (if you understand craoatian))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjOU75lEav8

This has the coolest Ramayana Monkey Chant towards the end

can't beat a good hornpipe with a cuppa tea

shame it's 99% home vids of awkward chubby middle age blokes sitting in their front room

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_DmHoSNL94

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd4TcFuGtgk

this THAI song from only god forgives...

there's infinite versions of the song:

also from Thailand i think: [Thailand hummmm? Do they make good ties there, can't remember where this quote come from, maybe bob's burgers...]

this is from colombia, pretty cool too:

huayno  from Peru:

This is Funana from Cabo Verde, watmm should check out everything that analog africa is putting out: